gamingeek said:

bugsonglass said:

Started playing Alan Wake today.  Played the first two episodes.  Why has this game been getting a hard time by reviewers and gamers again?

Playing it personally, I realise how much I love and how much I'd really missed Remedy.  It's been too long since Max Payne 2... welcome back.  I love the guy's voice, just like I did in Max Payne, love the cheesy noir atmosphere.  Love the gameplay too.  It's a lot like RE4 but a lot faster and with more movement   Who here has played it?  I think ASK and archie ... am I forgetting anyone?  I know Leo dismissed it without trying it  

I am now really looking forward to Max Payne 3 ... and can't wait to play the rest of Alan Wake.  Hope it's a bit longer than MP & MP2

1. How are you playing this? You don't own a 360?

2. Remedy are not making Max Payne 3 and it might not be out till 2012-13

aspro said:

GG, tell me you posted this story only to tweak me:

PSP Phone to be called Xperia Play? Looks like it's just another Xperia cell phone then

I don't know what you mean by tweak but I did think of you whilst writing it.

i've had a friend's 360 here for a few weeks now.  she hasn't been playing it much and it may end up staying here with me a while, or I may give her some money for it and keep it if she asks for something reasonable.  my username is bugsonglass ... add me to friends or whatever it is people call each other on xbox live.  

so far i've been playing only Forza 3, but today I felt like something different so I started AW.  I think you would quite enjoy it.  I can't remember if you have it or not.  I've been playing on hard, and it's quite tough, i've been dying a lot.  It's not like RE4 where everybody was waltzing along in one path in front of you waiting to die.  These bastards are very fast and they surround and often sneak up behind you.  A lot of times you need to decide whether you can take them on or try to make a runner but neither is very easy ever.  It's also quite creepy ... I won't be going camping anytime soon.

Remedy not making MP3?  Who is?  Rockstar?  I'm actually very disappointed to hear that.

aspro said:

Famitsu released the first review for Mario Sports Mix approximately a week before its launch in Japan. The game received an overall score of 30/40, with two reviewers giving it 7/10 and two giving it 8/10. One reviewer praised the title for its "simple and easy" controls, while also commenting that the characters' special moves were "pretty neat" and that the courts included in the game were "fun in their own way". However, concern was raised with the number of playable sports, with one reviewer commenting that "with only four sports included, some people might get bored pretty fast."

So long as we have Slimes playing baseball, I can't see how we could ever get bored with it.

Does anybody here use electric shavers? I bought this model as a gift but I'm now questioning my decision. it's one of the not-so-cheap models so it doesn't have an insane amount of reviews on amazon but very few are negative (3 stars or less) and a couple of them seem absurd or of a faulty unit.  I suppose the model is somewhat older, from 2007 or similar, which is why it's so much less than the original price, but even recent reviews of this same year are surprisingly positive, and most are by people who paid much more than I did. Hopefully those writing them know what they're talking about and those who rated it badly just did something wrong. This is higher than the budget I wanted to use at first, that's why I'm really hoping it's as good as it can be...

The price of not being the leader anymore. EA sure milked DLC with the BF2 "Booster Packs" before the Modern Warfare explosion for COD.

The 39-page document details the history of Infinity Ward, the Call of Duty franchise and the public termination of its two founders, West and Zampella. It seeks to prove that West and Zampella colluded with Electronic Arts, despite having more than two years on their employment contract. The suit reveals that, following a private meeting in August 2009 at EA CEO John Riccitiello's house in San Francisco -- coordinated by CAA agent and former Xbox face Seamus Blackley -- CAA enlisted the help of lawyer Harold Brown to evaluate their employment contracts. Brown was ostensibly chosen because he is a "former Activision board member and former legal counsel to Activision."

After the meeting, Activision alleges that West and Zampella continued colluding with Electronic Arts, going so far as to "covertly copy certain materials." Quotes from an email between West and Zampella include comments like, "Dunno how to scan secretely" and "Probably better to just photocopy and fedex." But it's not just documents; the suit claims that "West and Zampella continued to possess Activision confidential information long after they left which makes it likely that West and/or Zampella have misused and/or will continue to misuse valuable Activision intellectual property and trade secrets, including computer code, now that they have left Activision."

The amendment also alleges that West and Zampella refused to cooperate with other studios at Activision; one scenario -- also reinforced by documents, in this case, some text messages -- saw Infinity Ward releasing a Modern Warfare 2 video on the same day as a World at War DLC video, with the intent to "crush and destroy" Treyarch's marketing efforts. When confronted, West said, "We released on the same day as you because we had no clue you were releasing anything. We are not happy about it." A series of text messages between West and an unnamed Infinity Ward employee reveals another story. The unnamed IW employee texted West, "treyarch released their mp dlc video." West responded, "Super nice? We release our video? Crush and destroy with our video." The unnamed employee replied, "We already did. And . . . we already did" to which West concluded, "Nice."

Who?

"Australian-born actress Mia Wasikowska is new to Hollywood, but she has come within a whisker of bumping Leonardo DiCaprio off as the world's top box office earner for 2010."

aspro said:

Who?

"Australian-born actress Mia Wasikowska is new to Hollywood, but she has come within a whisker of bumping Leonardo DiCaprio off as the world's top box office earner for 2010."

Alice from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. That movie alone made about a billion dollars. For some reason it was ridiculously huge in Japan and is one of the highest grossing films of all time there.

robio said:

aspro said:

Who?

"Australian-born actress Mia Wasikowska is new to Hollywood, but she has come within a whisker of bumping Leonardo DiCaprio off as the world's top box office earner for 2010."

Alice from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. That movie alone made about a billion dollars. For some reason it was ridiculously huge in Japan and is one of the highest grossing films of all time there.

I had no idea that film was even made.